Andrew Forward

(He/Him) Side-project instigator, software developer and part-time prof.

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

ohhhhhhhhh

[Steve Schoger @steveschoger]

Getting the office ready for a Refactoring UI reboot.

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

How is there no mention of The Simpsons.... it's the only opening that I never (ever) skip, it's the only opening that I ever talk about independent of the actual show.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

What is the best opening theme to a TV show?

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

💪

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

9¾

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

@davehyndman @globeandmail The only cheat code I know is to continually repeat "Please cancel my account" and eventually you defeat the final boss and the account is closed.

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

@byronalley @PJUllrich If you use https://t.co/IygYJ2KUlX (or possibly just docker), I could share some infra configs to install the necessary parts (aka chrome)

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

Found a new weekend read (Badass). Highly recommend the other two.

[Adam Wathan @adamwathan]

Three of my favorite books on how to build great products that I don’t see mentioned very often in my circles —

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

@PJUllrich @Krnsi @elixirphoenix Keep a boring name, or try something fun? And, curious if you would want to look beyond web applications to include more backend apps (that aren't just phoenix)

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

@PJUllrich Big difference between the "next" role and how long to wait for a certain roll. If the odds of getting pregnant are 1/6 (my number not his :-), then you should expect to wait about 6 months (1/p) before thinking you are outside the norm.
https://t.co/6LSalOiJum

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

@sean_moriarity The End of Average by Todd Rose
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
The Order of Time by Carlo Roveli
Barking Up The Wrong Tree by Eric Baker
Algorithms to Live By by B Christian and T Griffiths

No swears though

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

Unlabelled? Neutral. Laptop only, means i can bang out work on a train, on a plane, with a fox, on a box!

[Graphite Czech 🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸 @CzechArtGirl]

Which monitor setup are you?

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

I find selling the mono-repo such a difficult task, even when benefits like this are implemented and demonstrated to be amazing.

[Dave Lucia @davydog187]

We’re a team of 3 engineers covering hardware, a cloud service, CLI, edge compute worker, ML stack, video processing, and WebRTC.

Biggest boon to productivity?

Everything is in a single monorepo. You can run the whole stack locally, and make changes across the system in one PR

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

The last sentence for the W 🤓 https://t.co/OHelR3YaPZ

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

ABR: Always be rebasing https://t.co/I6jVrJEBPX

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

"For programmers that means poring over that pull request of theirs over and over again until it’s as aesthetically pleasing as it is functionally correct."

I like to apply this at the commit level, where the history tells a compelling story of "mark the hard change easy..."

[DHH @dhh]

“If there’s anything I see juniors often miss, it’s this. Careful, repeated, even obsessive, study of their own work. For programmers that means poring over the pull request until it’s as aesthetically pleasing as it is functionally correct.” https://t.co/EaiolBziIM

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

The evolution of automated testing acronyms...

We started with First,
TFD

We elaborated with Design
TDD

We clarified with Feedback
TDF (https://t.co/AZFwtXrdYp)

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

“Oh, and you often have to rewrite your app in proprietary JavaScript – even if it’s already written in JavaScript!”

🔥

[Chris McCord @chris_mccord]

FLAME is out! 🔥 Auto scale by wrapping any app code in a function and have that block run in a temporary copy of your app.

It's time to rethink Serverless.

No rewrites. No bespoke runtimes. No outrageous layers of complexity. Blog + screencast 👉 https://t.co/fgNzh3YHxo

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

supa dupa fly

[Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) @RIAA]

#WorkIt @MissyElliott! Missy is officially the first female Hip-Hop artist to be inducted into @rockhall! She holds 6 Platinum 💿 or higher tracks and 6 💿 Platinum or higher albums.

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

@alexbunardzic Reminds me of Zod

[Andrew Forward @a4word]

Getting to brevity requires clarity, forcing you to stake a claim about what is your most important point. https://t.co/OvXKYuAz3Y